St Pancras, Middlesex : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about St Pancras. You may be able to find further references to St Pancras in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
PANCRAS (St.) Imperial
St Pancras parliamentary borough Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with St Pancras.

Place Type of entry Source
AGAR-TOWN a metropolitan suburb Imperial
Brookfield ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
BROOKFIELD, or Highgate-Rise a chapelry Imperial
CAMDEN-TOWN a suburb of London, a subdistrict, and three chapelries Imperial
GRAYS INN LANE two chapelries, and a sub-district Imperial
HIGHGATE a metropolitan suburb and a chapelry Imperial
Kentish Town district and railway station Bartholomew
KENTISH-TOWN a metropolitan suburb, a parochial chapelry, and a sub-district Imperial
KINGS-CROSS a quondam hamlet and a chapelry Imperial
New Kentish Town ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Regents Park ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Regents Square ecclesiastical district Bartholomew
Somers Town 2 ecclesiastical districts Bartholomew
SOMERS-TOWN a chapelry and a sub-district Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to St Pancras within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
Thomas Pennant St Albans to London 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Kings Cross 0 2
Agar Town 0 1
Somers Town 0 2
Battle Bridge 0 2
Camden 0 2
Pentonville 0 2
Barnsbury 0 1
Grays Inn Road 0 2
Bloomsbury 6 2
Regents Park 0 1
Islington 48 2
Kentish Town 2 2
Chalk Farm 0 2
Grays Inn 3 2
Tufnell Park 0 1
Clerkenwell 2 2
Saffron Hill 1 2
Holborn 12 5
Furnivals Inn 1 2
Canonbury 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for St Pancras. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
PANCRAS Thomas Pennant The Journey from Chester to London (London: Wilkie and Robinson, 1811).
PANCRAS ST John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
ST PANCRAS John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.